Vacasa jumps into vacation home sale process with new network connecting buyers, sellers and agents

When Portland startup Vacasa raised $103 million last year, it set the stage for a flurry of new products, and now the company is pulling back the curtain on the first one.

Vacasa is expanding beyond its bread and butter service of vacation rental management to offer a new network aimed at helping people through the process of buying and selling second homes. The Portland startup is not buying and selling vacation houses itself — not yet, anyway — but it is offering a variety of tools to help people looking to buy a vacation home, connect them with the right agents and share data and learnings from managing more than 9,000 properties with agents.